Associate

Elspeth Dusinberre (PhD Michigan 1997) is interested in cultural interactions in Anatolia, particularly in the ways in which the Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550–330 BCE) affected local social structures and in the give-and-take between Achaemenid and other cultures. She is currently studying the seal impressions on the Aramaic tablets of the Persepolis Fortification Archive (dating ca. 500 BCE), and the Middle and Early Phrygian periods at Gordion, including a monograph on the Early Phrygian destruction level (ca. 800 BCE). Prof. Dusinberre teaches primarily Greek and Near Eastern archaeology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is a President's Teaching Scholar and has been awarded twelve University of Colorado teaching awards. She has worked at Sardis, Gordion, and Kerkenes Dağ in Turkey, as well as at sites elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean. Her work has been supported by an ACLS-SSRC fellowship, a Loeb Classical Library Foundation fellowship, a Getty Villa Research Scholar grant, and a Guggenheim fellowship.